The Sister Pat Kelley Achievement Award is the National Fuel
Funds Network’s highest honor. The award recognizes exemplary personal
achievement in furthering the organization’s goals of increasing public
awareness of low-income energy problems, advancing energy assistance policy and
promoting charitable energy assistance.
This year the NFFN honors the contributions of David Carroll
who has dedicated his career to research on low-income energy issues and has
made substantial contributions to furthering the NFFN’s objectives. For more
than 25 years, Mr. Carroll’s research and analysis low-income energy assistance
and energy efficiency programs have advanced low income energy policy and
improved the efficiency of low income energy programs across the nation.
NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall presents the award to David Carroll.
The Victorine Q. Adams Award highlights institutional
innovations and achievement among nonprofit NFFN members. This year the award
goes to the Energy Services, Inc.’s Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund for its
creative fund raising projects.
In 2010, the KWW/CF unveiled a corn maze in the suburbs of
Madison and it attracted 1,300 visitors. Last year more than 2,600 people
visited the corn maze raising more than $70,000 for energy assistance. Additionally, the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool
Fund has started a fund raising promotion with Schoep’s Ice Cream where the
company will produce and sell special flavors with the KWW/CF logo and will
donate a portion of the sales to the fund.
NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall presents the award to Tim Bruer.
The NFFN Corporate Excellence Award recognizes outstanding
achievement by a company on behalf of its low income customers. This year the
award goes to TXU Energy for its TXU
Energy Aidsm program which, since 1983, has provided over $72
million in temporary bill-payment assistance and aided 415,000 families across
Texas when they needed it most.
The commitment to help those in need runs throughout TXU
Energy where over the last 8 years employees alone donated $1.8 million to the
program. Last year 1,409 employees donated $336,656 to TXU Energy Aidsm, the largest employee
campaign to date.
Kim Campbell of TXU Energy accepted the award from NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall.
Kim Campbell of TXU Energy accepted the award from NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall.